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Family Research Council, Ex-Gays Gain Power in Suburban D.C. Schools

The Montgomery County, Maryland, Board of Education has identified the members of a sex-education curriculum development panel. This panel is is being recreated after the previous panel’s work was protested by an abstinence-only group and the antigay group PFOX, challenged in court by the religious-right Liberty Counsel, and subsequently discarded.

Among the new panel members is antigay activist Peter Sprigg of the Family Research Council. He will represent PFOX.

Other panel members include representatives from PFLAG and NARAL Pro-Choice Maryland. What abortion has to do with sex education is beyond me. (That’s an invitation to a food fight in the comments section, hint hint.)

Mike Airhart was the founding editor of Ex-Gay Watch, until he left in 2007. He has returned as a contributing writer. He has written periodically for Truth Wins Out, and volunteered for Men Can Stop Rape, Whitman-Walker Clinic, WaterFire Providence, and the Providence Equality Action Committee. His background includes expertise in journalism, business news, content syndication, human rights, sexual harassment issues, and liberation theology.